The Musical Arts Association is grateful to
the following organizations for their ongoing
generous support of The Cleveland Orchestra:
National Endowment for the Arts,
the State of Ohio and Ohio Arts Council,
and to the residents of Cuyahoga County
through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
The Cleveland Orchestra is proud of its long-term
partnership with Kent State University, made
possible in part through generous funding from
the State of Ohio.
The Cleveland Orchestra is proud to have its home,
Severance Hall, located on the campus of Case
Western Reserve University, with whom it has a
long history of collaboration and partnership.

All unused books are
recycled as part of the
Orchestra’s regular business recycling program.
These books are printed
with EcoSmart certified
inks, containing twice the
vegetable-based material and
one-tenth the petroleum oil
content of standard inks, and
producing 10% of the volatile
organic compounds.

Perspectivesfrom the Executive Director
April 18, 2013
It is with sadness that I write of the death earlier this week of former Cleveland Orchestra trumpeter David Zauder. David passed
away on Tuesday morning, surrounded by his family in Colorado.
Through his long career here, David had a deep and lasting impact
on this institution.

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David was hired by George Szell, joining the trumpet section of The Cleveland Orchestra
in 1958. He served until the close of the 1996-97 season, taking on the concurrent role
of principal cornet and retiring after 39 years — longer than any other trumpeter in the
Orchestra’s history. Equal in importance to David’s service as a member of the Orchestra was his extraordinary tenure as our Orchestra
Personnel Manager, a post he held for 25 seasons,
through all of Lorin Maazel’s and much of Christoph von Dohnányi’s music directorships. David
had earlier served as Asssistant Personnel Manager, 1960-71, covering the final decade of George
Szell’s tenure.
While much of David’s work was out of the spotlight, he stepped forward as a soloist with the
Orchestra on several occasions. His final solo appearance was for the opening night gala concert
in 1996. He was also the featured soloist in twenty
concerts with the Blossom Festival Concert Band,
DAVID ZAUDER
an organization for which he was the guiding spirit
from its inception in Blossom’s second season in 1969. In recognition of his extraordinary
service, David was the recipient of the Orchestra’s Distinguished Service Award in 1997.
I remember David as a leader who faced every challenge with good humor and good
judgement. And no matter how difficult the situation, you were always aware of his love
for the institution, and for the people around him. He cared about everyone and no occasion in the lives of his colleagues was too small to go unrecognized.
His great humanity and his love of life were doubtless shaped by his personal history as
a Holocaust survivor. David was born in Krakow, Poland, in 1928 or 1931 — his birth year
is uncertain as his birth certificate was destroyed during the war. As a youth, he was interned in the Auschwitz, Flossenburg, and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. David
survived and began his new life in America on May 20, 1946. His story has been told in
the published work of his daughter, Karen Brass.
David Zauder was a great friend to The Cleveland Orchestra and to this community.
We will miss him terribly, but we’ll never forget him.

Gary Hanson
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SYMPHONY AND BASEBALL — In the summer of 1953, when Public Auditorium was

undergoing renovations, The Cleveland Orchestra’s series of popular summer concerts became pre-game performances at Cleveland Stadium. In this photograph,
Louis Lane conducts while Indians team members pose and listen.

of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, The Cleveland Orchestra has become one of the most sought-after performing ensembles in the world. In concerts at its winter home at Severance Hall and at each
summer’s Blossom Festival, in residencies from Miami to Vienna, and on tour
around the world, The Cleveland Orchestra sets standards of artistic excellence, creative programming, and community engagement. The partnership
with Franz Welser-Möst, now in its eleventh season — and with a commitment to the Orchestra’s centennial in 2018 — has moved the ensemble forward
with a series of new and ongoing initiatives, including:
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the establishment of residencies around the world, fostering creative artistic
growth and an expanded financial base, including an ongoing residency at
the Vienna Musikverein (the first of its kind by an American orchestra);
expansion of education and community programs in Northeast Ohio to
make music an integral and regular part of everyday life for more people; the
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gram that will bring The Cleveland Orchestra to neighborhoods across the region
for an intensive week of special activities and performances. First stop is the Gordon
Square Arts District in Cleveland’s Detroit/Shoreway neighborhood in May 2013;
an ongoing residency in Florida, under the name Cleveland Orchestra Miami,
involving an annual series of concerts and community activities, coupled with an
expansive set of educational presentations and collaborations (based on successful
educational programs pioneered at home in Cleveland);
creative new artistic collaborations, including staged works and chamber music
performances, with arts institutions in Northeast Ohio and in Miami;
an array of new concert offerings (including Fridays@7 and Celebrity Series at
Severance Hall as well as movie, themed, and family presentations at Blossom) to
make a wider variety of concerts more available and affordable;
concert tours from coast to coast in the United States, including annual appearances at Carnegie Hall;
regular concert tours to Europe and Asia;
ongoing recording activities, including new releases under the direction of Franz
Welser-Möst, Mitsuko Uchida, and Pierre Boulez, as well as a series of DVD concert presentations of symphonies by Anton Bruckner;
a concentrated and ongoing effort to develop future generations of audiences for
Cleveland Orchestra concerts in Northeast Ohio, through research, targeted discounts, social media offers and promotion, and student ticket programs;
continuing and expanded educational partnerships with schools, colleges, and
universities across Northeast Ohio and in the Miami-Dade community;
additional new residencies at Indiana University and at New York’s Lincoln Center Festival;
the return of ballet as a regular part of the Orchestra’s presentations, featuring
performances by The Joffrey Ballet; the 2012-13 season featured the Orchestra’s first
fully staged performances of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.
The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in 1918 by a group of local citizens intent on creating an ensemble worthy of joining America’s ranks of major symphony orchestras. Over the ensuing decades, the Orchestra quickly grew from a fine
regional organization to being one of the most admired symphony orchestras in
the world. The opening in 1931 of Severance Hall as the Orchestra’s home brought
a special pride to the ensemble and its hometown, as well as providing an enviable
and intimate acoustic environment in which to develop and refine the Orchestra’s
artistry. Year-round performances became a reality in 1968 with the opening of
Blossom Music Center, one of the most beautiful and acoustically admired outdoor
concert facilities in the United States.
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T H E 2 0 1 2 - 1 3 S E A S O N marks Franz Welser-Möst’s
eleventh year as music director of The Cleveland
Orchestra, with a long-term commitment extending to the Orchestra’s centennial in 2018. Under his
direction, the Orchestra is acclaimed for its continuing artistic excellence, is enlarging and enhancing its
community programming at home, is presented in a
series of ongoing residencies in the United States and
Europe, continues its historic championship of new
composers through commissions and premieres, and
has re-established itself as an important operatic ensemble. Concurrently with his post in Cleveland, Mr. Welser-Möst became
general music director of the Vienna State Opera in September 2010.
With a committed focus on music education in Northeast Ohio, Franz
Welser-Möst has taken The Cleveland Orchestra back into public schools with
performances in collaboration with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.
The initiative continues and expands upon Mr. Welser-Möst’s active participation
in community concerts and educational programs, including the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and partnerships with music conservatories and universities
across Northeast Ohio.
Under Mr. Welser-Möst’s leadership, The Cleveland Orchestra has established
an ongoing biennial residency in Vienna at the famed Musikverein concert hall and
another at Switzerland’s Lucerne Festival. Together, they have appeared in residence
at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan, and at the Salzburg Festival, where a 2008 residency
included five sold-out performances of a staged production of Dvořák’s opera Rusalka.
In the United States, Mr. Welser-Möst has established an annual multi-week Cleveland
Orchestra residency in Florida under the name Cleveland Orchestra Miami and, in
2011, launched a new biennial residency at New York’s Lincoln Center Festival.
To the start of this season, The Cleveland Orchestra has performed fourteen
world and fifteen United States premieres under Franz Welser-Möst’s direction.
Through the Roche Commissions project, he and the Orchestra have premiered
works by Harrison Birtwistle, Chen Yi, Hanspeter Kyburz, George Benjamin,
Toshio Hosokawa, and Matthias Pintscher in partnership with the Lucerne Festival and Carnegie Hall. In addition, the Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow
program has brought new voices to the repertoire, including Pintscher, Marc-André Dalbavie, Susan Botti, Julian Anderson, Johannes Maria Staud, Jörg Widmann,
and Sean Shepherd.
Franz Welser-Möst has led a series of opera performances during his tenure

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in Cleveland, re-establishing the Orchestra as an important operatic ensemble. Following six seasons of opera-in-concert presentations, he brought fully staged opera back to Severance Hall with
a three-season cycle of Zurich Opera productions of the MozartDa Ponte operas. He led concert performances of Strauss’s Salome at Severance Hall and at Carnegie Hall in May 2012.
Franz Welser-Möst became general music director of the
Vienna State Opera in 2010. His long partnership with the company has included acclaimed performances of Tristan and Isolde,
a new production of Wagner’s Ring cycle with stage director SvenEric Bechtolf, and critically praised new productions of Hindemith’s Cardillac and Janáček’s Katya Kabanova and From the
House of the Dead. During the 2012-13 season, his Vienna performances include
Wagner’s Parsifal, Strauss’s Arabella and Ariadne auf Naxos, Puccini’s La Bohème,
and Berg’s Wozzeck.
Mr. Welser-Möst also maintains an ongoing relationship with the Vienna Philharmonic. Recent performances with the Philharmonic include appearances at the
Lucerne Festival and Salzburg Festival, in Tokyo, and in concert at La Scala Milan,
as well as leading the Philharmonic’s 2011 New Year’s Day concert, viewed by telecast
in seventy countries worldwide; he conducted the New Year’s Day concert again at
the start of 2013 and also leads the Philharmonic in a series of concerts at New York’s
Carnegie Hall in March 2013. Across a decade-long tenure with the Zurich Opera,
culminating in three seasons as general music director (2005-08), Mr. Welser-Möst
led the company in more than 40 new productions and numerous revivals.
Franz Welser-Möst’s recordings and videos have won major awards, including
the Gramophone Award, Diapason d’Or, Japanese Record Academy Award, and
two Grammy nominations. With The Cleveland Orchestra, he has created DVD
recordings of live performances of Bruckner symphonies, presented in three acoustically distinctive venues (the Abbey of St. Florian in Austria, Vienna’s Musikverein, and Severance Hall). With Cleveland, he has also released a recording of
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as well as an all-Wagner album featuring soprano
Measha Brueggergosman. DVD releases on the EMI label have included Mr. Welser-Möst leading Zurich Opera productions of The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte,
Don Giovanni, Der Rosenkavalier, Fierrabras, and Peter Grimes.
For his talents and dedication, Mr. Welser-Möst has received honors that
include recognition from the Western Law Center for Disability Rights, honorary membership in the Vienna Singverein, appointment as an Academician of the
European Academy of Yuste, a Gold Medal from the Upper Austrian government
for his work as a cultural ambassador, a Decoration of Honor from the Republic of
Austria for his artistic achievements, and the Kilenyi Medal from the Bruckner Society of America. He is the co-author of Cadences: Observations and Conversations,
published in a German edition in 2007.

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“The Cleveland Orchestra proved
that they are still one of the world’s
great musical beasts. With Franz
Welser-Möst conducting, this music
. . . reverberated in the souls of the
audience.”
—Wall Street Journal

—The Guardian (London)

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“Cleveland’s reputation as one of the
world’s great ensembles is richly deserved.”

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is vote of conﬁdence in The Cleveland Orchestra’s programming
innovations and community engagement across Northeast Ohio

—Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 28

The Cleveland Foundation has awarded The
Cleveland Orchestra a $10 million grant to
support its ongoing efforts to cultivate new
and broader audiences and to build a strong
endowment to sustain the nearly century-old
institution. The grant . . . is a demonstration of
the grantmaking organization’s confidence in
the strategic direction the orchestra is taking,
said Robert Eckardt, The Cleveland Foundation’s
executive vice president. . . . “It was time to step
up and provide a significant commitment to the
Orchestra as they work through the challenging
environment they find themselves in,” Mr. Eckardt
said. . . . “They are an important part of Cleveland’s brand, and it’s difficult to imagine Cleveland without a world-class orchestra.” . . . Gary
Hanson, the orchestra’s executive director, stated
that The Cleveland Foundation’s commitment . . .
adds “meaningful momentum” to the Orchestra’s
Sound for the Centennial fundraising campaign,
which runs through 2018 — the orchestra’s
100-year anniversary.

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“The Cleveland Foundation’s just-announced
$10 million grant to The Cleveland Orchestra —
the largest arts grant in the foundation’s history
— is a ringing vote of confidence in the future of
this treasured local institution and its pacesetting
innovations. . . . The grant is a welcome affirmation that The Cleveland Orchestra will be making
beautiful music for another 100 years.”

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On March 28, The Cleveland Foundation announced the awarding of a five-year, $10 million
grant to The Cleveland Orchestra in support of
the Orchestra’s recent and ongoing efforts to
attract a new, broader audience and to transform itself for the future. Given as part of the
Orchestra’s Sound for the Centennial Campaign,
this unprecedented grant is the largest single
grant to an arts organization in the Foundation’s
99-year history.
“We are deeply grateful for the Cleveland
Foundation’s extraordinary grant and the confidence in the Orchestra’s strategic direction
that it represents,” says Gary Hanson, executive
director of The Cleveland Orchestra. “Over the
past year, the foundation’s staff and board have
rigorously assessed the Orchestra’s ongoing
transformation and we sincerely appreciate their
generous commitment to our work.”
“Through the years, the Cleveland Foundation has stepped up to provide significant
support to major Northeast Ohio institutions
at pivotal times,” remarked Ronald B. Richard,
president and chief executive officer of the Foundation. “We intend that this grant will catalyze
additional leadership funding for the Orchestra’s
creative efforts in the community to make this
world-class institution accessible and enjoyable
to all of Greater Cleveland for years to come.”
The grant to the Orchestra was part of a
record $26.6 million in grants in the first quarter
of 2013 authorized by the Foundation’s board
of directors, including grants in support of core
neighborhood and youth initiatives, educational institutions, and efforts to create a vibrant
downtown. Established in 1914, the Cleveland
Foundation is the world’s first community foundation and one of the largest today. Through the
generosity of donors, the foundation improves
the lives of Greater Clevelanders by building
community endowment, addressing needs
through grantmaking, and providing leadership
on vital issues.

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Longterm generosity and new commitments by Kulas Foundation
and John P. Murphy Foundation recognized through the naming
of Severance Hall’s upper lobby and dress circle seating

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Two important parts of Severance Hall
— the dress circle seating area of the Concert
Hall, and the adjoining dress circle lobby — have
been named in recognition of longterm support
for The Cleveland Orchestra by two extraordinary local organizations: the John P. Murphy
Foundation and the Kulas Foundation. Both
have long historical relationships with the Orchestra and have made generous new funding
commitments to the Sound for the Centennial
Campaign, which spans the decade leading to
the Orchestra’s 100th anniversary in 2018.
“These two foundations represent a special
kind of strong, ongoing commitment to the
Orchestra — and to the entire Northeast Ohio
community,” said Gary Hanson, executive director of The Cleveland Orchestra, in announcing
the named spaces. “We are humbled by their
generosity and by their faith in the Orchestra’s
efforts to transform itself and to harness the passion and power of music to serve more people
across the region.”
The John P. Murphy Foundation is now
permanently honored at Severance Hall with
the naming of the John P. Murphy Dress Circle
Lobby. The Foundation and its trustees and
officers have been generous supporters of The
Cleveland Orchestra since 1970, contributing
more than $7.5 million. John P. Murphy began
serving on the Musical Arts Association board of
trustees in 1953 and continued as a trustee until
1968. The Foundation has made a ten-year commitment of funding to The Cleveland Orchestra
as part of the comprehensive Sound for the Centennial Campaign.
“The John P. Murphy Foundation has long
understood the tremendous value that The
Cleveland Orchestra holds for all of Northeast
Ohio,” says Nancy W. McCann, president of the
Foundation’s board of trustees. “Our $3 million
commitment to the Sound for the Centennial
Campaign is an investment in this community
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ing more local residents through transformative
and innovative musical programming.”
With the naming of the Kulas Dress Circle,
the Orchestra permanently honors the Kulas
Foundation, which has generously supported
The Cleveland Orchestra for three-quarters of
a century. With their lifelong passion of music,
Elroy J. Kulas and his wife, Fynette, began supporting the Orchestra in 1919, long before they
established the Kulas Foundation in 1937. Both
later served as active members of the Musical
Arts Association board of trustees. In the past
three decades, the Kulas Foundation has contributed more than $10 million to The Cleveland
Orchestra. Their generosity has helped support
education programs as well as the construction
and naming of Kulas Plaza at Blossom Music
Center to provide updated services for donors.
They recently committed $3 million for the
Sound for the Centennial Campaign.
“We are extraordinarily grateful to Kulas
Foundation trustees Richard W. Pogue, Patrick
F. McCartan, and Nancy W. McCann for their
leadership in working to support The Cleveland
Orchestra,” said Gary Hanson.
“The Cleveland Orchestra is among Northeast Ohio’s top cultural gems,” continued Nancy
McCann. “With our commitment to this Campaign, the Kulas Foundation honors the ensemble’s 100th anniversary and looks forward to the
Orchestra’s ongoing role as a strong and vibrant
part of this community’s future.”

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Orchestra will be “at home” in Gordon Square

Inaugural neighborhood residency will bring an intensive week
of performances, activities, and concerts on west side, May 11-17

in part by the Machaskee Fund for Community
Programming, a fund created by a generous endowment gift from Alex and Carol Machaskee.
The centerpiece of the “At Home” in Gordon Square week of over a dozen free music
presentations will be a Thursday night concert
by The Cleveland Orchestra at Saint Colman
Catholic Church. Seating for this is limited and
tickets are required. Tickets can be obtained
from a variety of Gordon Square businesses and
organizations beginning on Saturday, April 27.
Complete details of all the free performances and activities for “At Home” in Gordon Square
— including family-friendly programs for all age
groups — can be found on the Orchestra’s website at clevelandorchestra.com/athome.
A new neighborhood or town will be chosen each season to partner with The Cleveland
Orchestra in creating a unique and intensive
week-long festival of musical activities, performances, exploration, and everyday fun.

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In May, The Cleveland Orchestra launches
its “At Home” neighborhood residency program with an intensive week of performances
and activities in the Gordon Square Arts District
on Cleveland’s west side. All of the events, May
11-17, will be free and open to the public. Leaders and representatives from Gordon Square
businesses and associations have partnered
with the Orchestra to plan and host the week’s
activities.
These new “At Home” residencies are being designed to immerse the Orchestra in local
neighborhoods through a festival-like week of
performances and presentations, in order to
bring the Orchestra’s musicians in closer context, contact, and connection with the Northeast Ohio community.
“The citizens of this region created The
Cleveland Orchestra,” says executive director
Gary Hanson, “and continue to support the
Orchestra’s music-making and its education
programs at a higher level than any other metropolitan area in the country. In thanks for that
faithful support, as a way to give back to the
community, and as part of our ongoing commitment to Northeast Ohio, we are working
to create a real-life everyday connection with
neighborhoods throughout the region.”
The Cleveland Orchestra’s “At Home”
neighborhood residency program is supported

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George Gund Foundation supports The Cleveland Orchestra’s
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The George Gund Foundation awarded a
$3 million grant at its February board meeting
to support The Cleveland Orchestra’s Sound
for the Centennial Campaign. Pledged over six
years, the award honors the late George Gund
III, who was a trustee of the Musical Arts Association.
The Foundation’s commitment permanently endows a new Fund for Artistic Excellence in George Gund’s name, providing
immediate support for the Orchestra’s core
artistic programming for the community. “This
commitment to the Campaign not only celebrates George Gund’s legacy and leadership
at the Orchestra,” said David Abbott, the Foundation’s executive director. “It also ensures that
one of our community’s most valuable assets
can continue to serve Northeast Ohio at the

highest levels of artistic excellence.”
George Gund III was elected as an international trustee in 1994 and served on the board
of the Musical Arts Association for 19 years. The
new gift is the largest gift made by the Gund
Foundation to The Cleveland Orchestra, and
ranks among the largest institutional leadership commitments to the Sound for the Centennial Campaign thus far, as well as among the
Foundation’s largest commitments to a cultural
organization in Northeast Ohio.
The Orchestra’s Sound for the Centennial
Campaign runs through the Orchestra’s centennial in 2018 and will ensure that the Orchestra
can continue to thrive now and into the future
by building a significant endowment and providing immediate support for artistic excellence
and community and education programs.

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Chorus auditions announced for children,
youth, and adult singers for Blossom and 2013-14

pare a piece from the OMEA Solo & Ensemble list,
or an equivalent classical solo piece; Broadway
or “pop” tunes are not acceptable. In addition
to the prepared piece, students will be asked to
sight-read and demonstrate their vocal range.
An accompanist is provided at the audition.
The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus is one of
the few professionally trained, all-volunteer choruses sponsored by a major American orchestra.
Coming from nearly fifty Northeast Ohio communities, members of the Chorus perform with
The Cleveland Orchestra in subscription and
Christmas concerts each year. Previous choral
experience and sight-reading skills are required.
The Blossom Festival Chorus includes many
members of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
and other Northeast Ohio choral groups. It has
established itself as a permanent annual part of
the summertime Blossom Festival and has sung
in more than 100 concerts since its 1968 debut.
Both groups are directed by Robert Porco.
Auditions for the Cleveland Orchestra
Chorus and Blossom Festival Chorus will be held
May 20 and 21, by appointment only. Those
auditioning are asked to prepare two pieces
from the classical literature, one of which should
be in a foreign language. Each piece should be
approximately two minutes in length. Previous
choral experience and sight-reading skills are
required. An accompanist is provided at the
audition.
To schedule an audition, call the Chorus
Office at 216-231-7374, or send an email to
chorus@clevelandorchestra.com.

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Spring audition dates for the choral groups
sponsored by The Cleveland Orchestra have
been announced. The auditions — for adults,
youth, and children — are for membership in
groups singing during the 2013 Blossom Music
Festival and the 2013-14 Season at Severance
Hall. Auditions will take place in May and June.
The Cleveland Orchestra Choruses embody a
long-standing commitment to choral music in
which community members of all ages have the
opportunity to participate.
The Cleveland Orchestra Children’s
Chorus is open to students in grades 6-8 and
directed by Ann Usher, and the Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Preparatory Chorus is open to
students in grades 5-8 and directed by Suzanne
Walters. Both groups are holding auditions on
May 20, June 3, and June 8. The Children’s Chorus, formed in 1967, provides musical training in
vocal production and choral performance skills.
The Children’s Preparatory Chorus provides
children with initial choral experiences to which
younger singers may not have been exposed,
while establishing a solid foundation in vocal
production techniques.
To audition, children are asked to sing one
verse of “America” (My Country, ’Tis of Thee) with
piano accompaniment in the key of his or her
choice and one verse of “America the Beautiful”
(Oh beautiful, for spacious skies) without accompaniment in the key of D. Singing scales and
doing some rhythmic exercises may also be included in the audition, for which an accompanist
is provided.
Students in grades 9-12 are welcome to
audition for the Cleveland Orchestra Youth
Chorus, directed by Lisa Wong, on May 4, June
1, or June 2. Created in 1991, the Youth Chorus
helps raise awareness of choral music-making
in the schools of Northeast Ohio and encourages students to continue their choral activities
through college and into adulthood. The Youth
Chorus collaborates each season in performance
with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra.
Youth Chorus audition requirements are to pre-

Cleveland Orchestra members Takako
Masame (violin), Katherine Bormann (violin),
Lisa Boyko (viola), and Mary Kay Fink (piccolo)
perform together as members of the Cleveland
Chamber Collective in a program on Friday evening, April 19. The concert at Cleveland State
University’s Drinko Hall (2001 Euclid Avenue) features works by Cleveland composers, including a premiere by Cleveland
Orchestra oboist Jeffrey Rathbun.

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Cleveland Orchestra member Eliesha Nelson (viola) joins with pianist James Housman
for a concert on Sunday afternoon, April 28, at
3 p.m. at Pilgrim Congregational Church (2592
West 14th Street, Cleveland). The program, part
of Arts Renaissance Tremont, includes works by
Finney, Kapustin, and Schubert. Admission is by
freewill offering.

Family Concert series
concludes in May with
storytelling in “Fables,
Fantasy, and Folklore”
The Cleveland
Orchestra’s season
of Family Concerts
concludes with
“Fables, Fantasy, and
Folklore” on Sunday
afternoon, May 12, led by
guest conductor Michael Butterman. The concert features such classics as Rimsky-Korsakov’s
Scheherazade (based on Tales from the Arabian
Nights), Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King,
and Rossini’s William Tell Overture. Intended
for children ages 7 and older, the series is designed to introduce young people to classical
music. In addition to each one-hour Orchestra
concert, the Family Concert series features
free, pre-concert activities, including an “Instrument Discovery” in which children can try
playing various instruments.
For complete details about this concert,
visit clevelandorchestra.com.

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F.A.M.I.L.Y N.E.W.S

Silence is golden

Please join in extending congratulations and warm wishes to:
Kim Gomez (violin) and James Gomez,
whose baby girl, Christina Therese Gomez,
was born on February 5.

As a courtesy to everyone around you,
patrons are reminded to turn off cell phones
and to disengage electronic watch alarms prior
to each concert.

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Collaboration with Cleveland Museum of Art continues
with “California Masterworks” concerts on May 1 and 3

serve University professor Henry Adams (speaking about modern and 20th-century California
art), and concludes with a special performance
of John Cage’s large-scale multi-media work
HPSCHD in the Museum’s Ames Family Atrium
on the evening of May 3, from 9 to 11 p.m.
The Orchestra and Museum presented
their first similar collaboration in 2011, with a
series of in-gallery chamber orchestra performances titled “Italian Masterworks.”
These Cleveland Orchestra performances
are made possible in part by the Keithley Fund
for Artistic Collaboration, created through a
generous gift to the Orchestra’s endowment.
Additional support is provided through endowed funds at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
For more information or to purchase
tickets to “California Masterworks,” visit the
Museum’s website at clevelandart.org.

THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA

The Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Museum of Art renew their collaborative
work together in May with “California Masterworks,” featuring two Cleveland Orchestra
concerts of works by groundbreaking composers associated with California. James Feddeck,
Cleveland Orchestra assistant conductor, conducts two different programs, Wednesday, May
1, and Friday, May 3, at the Museum’s Gartner
Auditorium. The programs feature works by
John Adams, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, Terry
Riley, James Tenney, and, in a posthumous
world premiere, Dane Rudhyar.
In addition to the concerts, “California
Masterworks” will also include the showing of
three films highlighting California composers
(Crossroads and Music with Balls on April 26, and
Lou Harrison: A World of Music on April 29), plus
Concert Previews talks with Case Western Re-